"A Jeep Can't Get Stuck"

My grandpa told me a story about him and the jeep i currently have.  His dad said that A jeep cant get stuck.  So the next day my grandpa set out  to prove my great grandpa wrong.  He took the jeep out on a country road.  Then he found the muddiest ditch(We actually got rain back then) he could and drove the jeep straight into it.  It ended up being hub deep in mud.  Well after the long walk back to town my grandpa told his dad what he'd done.  They grabbed the tow chains to rescue the jeep.  Lets just that my great grandpa wasn't to happy after waiding through the mud to free the jeep. 

My, rule for stuckidness is if you can get yourself out, you are only “delayed”.  If someone else has to get you out you’re officially “stuck”.

 

You ain’t off-roadin’ in if you a ain’t gettin’ “delayed” occasionally

Mark

Edited by Mark - 14 Dec. 2006 at 12:07pm

 Yep, sure can. I was thinkin' of this thread while I was diggin' out the 3B yesterday-- Three times! Wish I could've gotten some pic's.  BW

I've stuck my 48 once, I've been delayed several times LOL! My wifes Sahara on the other hand, I've stuck real good twice, tore valve stems off both times(gotta rectify that problem, need new wheels or to weld pipe around valve stems). One of those times me and the three kids that were with me ended up walking over a mile to a friends house to get him and his tractor to pull us out. Ended up having to borrow a boat trailer wheel and tire to get it home(never have got around to putting a spare tire rack on it). But it's all fun!

        It's a drag, man !
   How about a little one upmanship here. I once got an old CJ2A stuck in the middle a flat, open, dry field, honest engine ! You see it was like this, back when I was a young wipper snapper (anyone know just what IS a wipper snapper?) and I still imbibed in spirets, I went for a joy ride one evening. Now I'm not saying I was under the alcafluence of inkahchol, but the drunker I sat there the longer I got. Anyhoo, so I was out driving around chaseing beers, ah, deers, in the dark, in a field overgrowen with with hay about three feet high, I came to a screaching halt, litterly ! It seems I had run accross, again litterly, a set of field drags.
    For those of you city slickers not famialler with agriculturel equippment, this implement is also called a harrow and is used to brake up and smooth out the soil after plowing. It accomplishes this with numerous "C" shaped spring steel teeth fastened in rows in a frame. These are approximately 1 foot high but are agustable for depth by means of a lever approximately three feet high. These frames are usually attached in groups of three or more to "drag" arround behind a tractor (or Jeep ?). Today, the have mostly been replaced by a "disk" to do the same task.
    As you can imagine, this apparatus is not something one would wish to become impailed upon. Why this equipment was apparently abandoned where it was, will forever be a mistory to me. When I tryed to back up, one of the adjusters that had been flatened by my sideways mounting of this apperadis, became intangled with my exhaust system, removing same, thereby seriously damaging my "stealth mode". This necesitated a rather quick sobering up and and unstucked solution that involved a jack, the spare tire and some nice flat field stones, properly placed. All this done as surriptitiously as possible so as not to incure the rath of the indigenous, shotgun carring native.       So I quess I wasn't stuck at all, mearly delayed.             

Edited by Dave405 - 29 Dec. 2006 at 12:04pm

As a testament to the assertion of this thread's topic, I will mention that I believe the transfer case low range by itself is a big reason that Jeeps get themselves out of places other vehicles become significantly "delayed".  For several years as a none-too-wise teen, I had the front axle shafts out for repair.  I still went all through the woods, crossing streams, and taking many dubious off-road routes just because it looked fun.  I found that the low range by itself, usually with a light touch on the gas, would get me through the muck and over obstacles that would have stopped a lesser vehicle.   In fact, I was never "delayed" (as long as having to replace a bursted flexible oil line in the woods doesn't count). 

Edited by samcj2a - 01 Jan. 2007 at 9:26am

You might say both of these experances were "harrowing"!